Web devs rejoice! Firefox share finally exceeds IE6

Matt Jancaitis (Snarkasm)

November 4, 2009 1:37 PM ET in News, , , , ,

firefoxIn an event which can only be described as a long time coming, increased exposure for Mozilla’s Firefox has finally driven it to exceed that of Internet Explorer 6, the decrepit hunk of code venerable old browser released all the way back in 2001.

While IE’s overall market share still hangs around 62%, the portion of that belonging to the reviled IE6 shrunk to (a still abhorrently high) 23.30%. Combining versions 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5 for Firefox yielded a total presence of 23.83%.

Frankly, we don’t care what you switch to–Firefox, IE8, Safari 4, even Opera–but for heaven’s sake, get off of IE6 already. We’re talking to you, too, IT bean counters!

Ed note: In before enterprise risk analysis and legacy code.

24 Comments:

  1. Cliff_Forster
    4 Nov '09, 6:48 pm

    Its amazing how many great choices we have in the browser market. Why use IE6?

  2. Kwitko
    4 Nov '09, 6:55 pm

    Why use IE6? Because I'm familiar with it and it runs WoW.

  3. Snarkasm
    4 Nov '09, 6:57 pm

    Your toaster runs WoW, but if it doesn't have a ground prong, you're still behind the times.

    Thank God for Win 7's wonderful reception, at least.

  4. Thrax
    4 Nov '09, 6:57 pm

    11 million people can't be wrong.

  5. lordbean
    4 Nov '09, 7:04 pm

    11 million people with 11 million worms can be.

  6. Snarkasm
    4 Nov '09, 7:05 pm

    He was referring to WoWers, not IE6 users.

  7. chrisWhite
    5 Nov '09, 3:22 am

    It's about damned time.

  8. Tim
    5 Nov '09, 4:15 am

    So it takes THREE versions of Firefox combined to have more market share then IE6 all by its antique self that I still use? Okay.

  9. Winfrey
    5 Nov '09, 4:17 am

  10. Kwitko
    5 Nov '09, 4:23 am
    Quoting Winfrey

  11. NiGHTS
    5 Nov '09, 4:25 am

    You never cease to amaze.

  12. chrisWhite
    5 Nov '09, 4:25 am
    Quoting Tim

    So it takes THREE versions of Firefox combined to have more market share then IE6 all by its antique self that I still use? Okay.

    I still use AOL myself.

  13. NiGHTS
    5 Nov '09, 4:30 am

    Prodigy here, on my trusty Packard Bell.

  14. primesuspect
    5 Nov '09, 4:38 am

    I'm a BBS man, mahself. At 14.4K, my 4096-color GIF pictures get here in no time flat.

  15. mertesn
    5 Nov '09, 4:44 am
    Quoting primesuspect

    I'm a BBS man, mahself. At 14.4K, my 4096-color GIF pictures get here in no time flat.

    Yeah, it looks so much better on my Tandy 1000TX and 12" VGA monitor too.

  16. Thrax
    5 Nov '09, 4:59 am

    Noobs, I use a 5 megabaud modem

  17. shwaip
    5 Nov '09, 5:12 am
    Quoting Thrax

    Noobs, I use a 5 megabaud modem

    pshh.

    well aren't you mr fancy pants. I just upgraded to one of these.

  18. NiGHTS
    5 Nov '09, 5:27 am

    Hey, they still work for us, right? Who needs to upgrade!

  19. MachineDog
    5 Nov '09, 6:30 am

    Somewhere, someone actually has to use that for some ancient machine that *has* to work for some purpose.

  20. Winfrey
    5 Nov '09, 6:59 am
    Quoting shwaip

    pshh.

    well aren't you mr fancy pants. I just upgraded to one of these.

    LUCKY!

  21. Snarkasm
    5 Nov '09, 9:05 am

    I love it. Even without directly referencing Tim in the article, it still turns into Tim-based lulz.

  22. Zuntar
    5 Nov '09, 2:29 pm

    ^ every time! LOL

  23. MathieuB
    7 Nov '09, 2:14 pm

    It's about time! I think that the share of IE6 will take a hit with a lot of Windows XP users migrating to Windows 7 in the next year or two.

  24. ardichoke
    8 Nov '09, 7:31 pm

    Part of me wants to craft an IE6 hijack page and get Tim to go to it just because he deserves it.

    A slightly larger part of me doesn't want the FBI showing up at my workplace or apartment looking for me though.

    I feel immensely sorry for anybody that takes tech advice from Tim... if such a person exists.

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